Tamed by Her Touch

They can barely share a lab—now they have to share a bed. To cure a deadly virus, a grumpy Kindred scientist and his sunshine lab partner must fake a marriage on a planet where husbands worship their wives like goddesses.

KAELUS: Dr. Clair Donovan has been driving Kaelus mad since the day she invaded his laboratory. She breaks his rules, drinks obscenely sweet coffee around delicate experiments, and flaunts her lush curves, making it almost impossible to remember she's only his irritating lab partner.

As a Beast/Blood Hybrid Kindred, Kaelus knows he'll probably never Bond a mate, so wanting Clair is pointless. Then a deadly virus sends an entire Kindred colony savage, and they're sent to Titus Four to find the cure…posing as husband and wife. Unfortunately, pretending requires shared beds, intimate rituals, and far too much hands-on devotion.

CLAIR: After a disastrous marriage, Clair has sworn off men—especially huge, golden-eyed, terminally grouchy ones who glare at her across a laboratory. But pretending to be Kaelus's adored wife gets dangerously complicated when Titus Four expects husbands to worship their goddesses with kisses, touches, massages, and plenty of pleasure.

Kaelus may complain about every rule she breaks, but he's far too convincing when those intimate customs put his hands on her body. Soon the line between duty and desire is disappearing.

But beneath the planet's sensual traditions lies a deadly secret someone will do anything to keep buried.